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London, England, Gb

London, England, Gb

London, England, Gb

London, England, Gb

London, England, Gb

London, England, Gb

• Supported the Cementing Services and Cementing Accessories categories globally for 14 regions ($400MM/yr spend and approx. 30 contracts). • Pre and Post award Contract Management: Provided support across the categories mentioned above for all sourcing projects, dealing with government and regulatory restrictions, accommodating their requests and working across other categories when needed. • Worked with all regions and suppliers to coordinate price book additions requests, price reviews and amendments if applicable. • Led discussions and agreed on a global indexation language with our main suppliers by incorporating a price indexation language and developing cost models in all contracts using publicly available indices for the main cost elements. • Supported the development of a Full Field Development project in Khazzan, Oman from the RFI and RFP stages until the project got sanctioned by the Oman Ministry of Oil and Gas utilizing Ariba and doing and exhaustive analysis of commercial proposals. In charge of the commercial evaluation of a new drilling Fluids lab for all Western activities. • Part of the team for the cataloging of Service and Material Master Data for all Sub-Sectors so the current price book system could be moved to a new one. • Assisted with calculations that sustained the inflation/deflation forecasts for the Cementing category.

Dublin, Ie

• In charge of lead and develop projects for the ALS (Artificial Lift Systems) business unit to be able to outsource manufacturing of components to external suppliers bringing 15-20% savings versus the plants standard costs.• Search and evaluation of new markets. In charge of identifying new or strategic suppliers outside of USA (Mexico, China and Poland) to give support to the ALS plants (USA, Canada, Argentina, Brazil).• Managed RFP/RFQ with suppliers to support the Global Sourcing Team.• Provided support during sourcing initiatives, including total cost of ownership analysis, sourcing strategy development, fact-based negotiations strategy development & execution.• Support Purchase Order process and develop/improve process associated with it.• Supported negotiations and managed suppliers agreements.• Supplier Relationship Management: Developed and managed mutually beneficial relationships with key suppliers. Established, review and managed supplier performance metrics.• Results visibility by the development of metrics on the progress of outsourcing projects.• Assignment of projects to the Global Sourcing teams in Mexico, Poland and China.• Engaged technical resources as needed to help support the success of the projects mentioned above.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Supported the Proppants category ($600M spend). • Member of the Proppants strategic sourcing project conducted in 2008. The team was able to implement changes leading to an additional $20M in increased throughput for the organization.• Assisted in the creation, negotiation and maintenance of suppliers contracts.• Identified the exposure on take-or-pay contracts (category with the majority of Take or Pay contracts in the company) and implemented the necessary actions to minimize it.• Provided market information (industry trends, forecasted inflation) for the stakeholders using spend analysis, leading indicators and various market publications. • Delivered internal price trends to Business Development so that customer’s price books were properly maintained.• In charge of submitting savings/value created. Savings exceeded goal set for 2009 by 50%.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Analyst for the Complex Machining Sourcing Project ($90M). Under this role, supported this team to get new complex machining parts suppliers as the company needed additional capacity due to the incumbent suppliers being overloaded.• Worked as a Sourcing Analyst for the Heavy Equipment and Transmissions team ($60M). In that role, developed, together with the team, a strategy in order to achieve the maximum amount of savings and give the company the best solution for the equipment the Production Enhancement business unit needed. • Using a Price Discipline Cost Model, we negotiated lower prices as well as other terms and conditions to limit liability on the new contracts we were about to sign with the new engines and transmissions suppliers. Developed ‘Should Cost’ models to reflect the industry standards.• Together with other supply chain key personnel, analyzed the company and industry trends in the categories related to the Sourcing Projects I was assigned to. Researched through third party data.

Bonn, De

• Performed required business (revenue) analysis, creating reporting specifications, quality assuring reporting deliverables, facilitating user acceptance testing, coordinating project rollouts and also turning it into useful information for the Sales Team in support of executive decision making and target-setting.• Developed and implemented new reporting strategies to improve information quality to Senior Management.• Produced ad-hoc and customized monthly reports for the Sales Department according to their needs within the Service Level Agreement period.• Worked as part of the Reporting team to deliver full lifecycle business projects and ensuring their timely, efficient, and proper delivery. • Developed Standard Transit reports based on the ad-hoc transit reports that the Sales Dept. usually required so that the Sales Support Department could have a basic offer of a set of reports available for any person within the Sales Force.

Bonn, De

• Increased percentage of IRA from 97.4% to 99.14%.• In charge of the inventory accuracy for all DHL Solutions Miami customers (Hewlett Packard, Intel, Sun Microsystems, Kerzner, Irwin, etc.)• Assure that Cycle Counts were performed daily and that the control measures were implemented such as put away audits and location audits. Supervised a team of 6-10 Inventory Control Coordinators.• Reconcile all discrepancies found during Cycle Counts and find the root causes that originated those discrepancies.• In charge of all physical and systematical inventories.

· Developed inventory system in Excel through demand-planning.· Created and developed an Inventory Management Strategy, based on inventory turnover, ROI and adjusted profit margins.· Purchase orders and developed for the first time in this company the link between our system (MAS 200) and Excel.· Interface with vendors (domestic and overseas) and freight forwarders to schedule efficient delivery and shipment of goods.

Strassen, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Lu

· Responsible for all export/logistics activities including knowledge of customs procedures and freight forward operations.· Efficiently supported and involved in contract management (Peru and Chile) for metal trading company.· Responsible for contract follow up (shipping schedules, pricing, assays exchange, lay time calculations and invoicing).· Import/export documentation.